Manifolding-sales-book manipulator.



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Patented Mar. 17

A. R. TURK. MANIFOLDING SALES BOOK MANIPULATOR. APPLIGATION FILED FEB. 1, 191a 552%? ,3. far/,

' COILUMBIA PLANOGRAPH CO.,WASHINUTON. D. c.

A.R.TURK. MANIFOLDING SALES BOOK MANIPULATOR.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 1, 1913.

Patented Mar. 17, 1914.

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COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH co.. WASHINGTON, D. c.

ALBERT B. TURK, 0F CHIGAGO,

ILLINOIS.

MANIFOLDING-SALES-BOOK MANIPULATOR.

R Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed February 1, 1913.

Patented Mar. 17, 1914. Serial No. 745,614.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ALBERT R. TURK, a citizen of. the United States, residing Chicago, in the of llinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Manifolding-Sales- Book Manipulators, of which the following is a specification.

his invention is an improved substitute for the manifolding sales book manipulator or my prior Patent No. 776,439 issued November 29th, 1904:-

e object of this invention is to provide a device of the above class in which the carin my prior device, thereby enabling a greater portion of each page of the sales book and the intervening carbon record sheet to be used.

The invention consists in .a device which can be easily and cheaply made and operated, capable of carrying out the foregoing o jects, and which'is in its details simpler and more satisfactory and therefore less expensive than prior devices.

It also consists of other details which will fully described and claimed hereinafter. eferring to the drawings in which similar numerals indicate the same parts throughout the a front or left hand side of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a wire supporting device or bracket. Fig. 4 is a sectional detail view on Fig. 6 is a plan detail view taken at the left hand of Fig. 1 and slightly above the line 5. Fig. 7 is a plan view of the holding device by which the carbon sheet is attached to the de vice which controls it. Figs. 8 and 9 are detail views taken on the line 8 of Fig. 7, the parts being in different positions. Fig. 10 is a front or plan view of the whole device, the paper of the sales book being removed, the parts being in normal position before any pressure has been exerted on the operating handle or lever 50. Fig. 11 shows all the operating parts after they have moved from the position of Fig. 10 to the position which they assume when the carbon sheet has been wholly withdrawn from the sales book. Fig. 12 is a sectional detail view on the line 12 of Fig. 1.

As in any ordinary order book device, a base 15 is provided which may be made of wood, metal, pulp board, or any other suitable material. To this base is attached by flexible hinge 16 or other suitable means a cover 17 of ordinary construction. parts of themselves are old in the art and form no part of the invention, except as enumerated in the claims.

Attached to the base 15 and spaced apart from it by one or more blocks 18 so as to face and near the clip or clamp device 22 adapted to engage, clamp upon and end of the sales book 24 whose leaves are manipulated by the device of this invention in the manner hereafter described. If desired, a supplemental flap or curtain 25 may be inserted under and folded around this clamp device 22 thereby protecting it and the hinge 16 from The form of clamp 22 is no part of this invention and any of the numerous devices old in the art may be used.

The book 24 used in the device is nothing but a pad of order slips made up preferably of alternately removable and permanent sheets or leaves, but all the leaves may made removable invention. When one of these books is used up what is left of it is taken out from engagement by the clip 22 and a new one is put in its place. As in the case of the book used in the device of my for 1er patent, the leaves of the order book and their intervening duplicate or carbon record sheets are order as will be hereafter described; that is to say, a bottom its corresponding carbon impression duplicate sheet are both numbered 1,? two sheets above are numbered 2 so on.

Mounted on the side of the base member 15 and somewhere near the middle thereof is a bearing 26 and parallel to it and near the bottom or open end of the hook is another bearing 28 in line with the first. In the par- Without departing from the,

ticular preferred form of the device here illustrated these two bearings 26 and 28 are formed in a wire device 30 illustrated in perspective base member 15 by rivets 31 passing through the loops 32 formed in the wire. Any other suitable means of supporting and securing these bearings 26 and 28 or their equivalent upon the side of the base 15 may be employed without departing from this invention.

Slidably mounted in these bearings 26 and 28 is a rod 34 having bent at right angles to it or otherwise connected toit a clamping device 41 for gripping and holding a sheet of ordinary carbon paper 38. The exact form of the gripping device on this arm 36 is wholly immaterial. form shown in Figs. 7 8, and 9, two parallel rods 39 and 40 are provided, the former having rotatably mounted thereon a clamping jaw 41 which when moved from the position of Fig. 8. to that of Fig. 9 embraces the rod 40 and clamps the end of the carbon sheet 38, as is clearly shown in Fig. 9.

The upper portion 34 of the rod 34 is preferably slightly offset from the main portion of the rod 34 in the angular member 42 so that the arm 36 with carbon sheet 38 attached thereto may be inserted between the leaves of a pad or book 24 of substantial thickness. There is sufficient spring in the rod 3434 so that when the arm 36 carrying the carbon sheet is placed between two sheets of paper in a book or pad'24, the arm 38 and consequently the carbon sheet can always lie flatparallel to the paper of the book, the mere weight of the paper sheets upon the carbon sheet being suflicient to press the papers down to this position.

Extending from one side of the rod 34, preferably between the bearings 26 and 28, is a laterally extending arm 44. In the particular case here illustrated this arm is merely one side of a loop 45 formed in the rod or shaft 34. This arm 44 is so located that when the rod 34 is moved from the position shown in Fig. 10 to that shown in Fig. 11, it will engage and travel in a stationary cam slot 46 formed in a cylindrical member 47. The cylindrical member incloses the rod 34 and the bearing 28, and is secured in position by the rivet 48. This engagement of arm 44 with the cam slot gives the rod 34 a rotary movement of about one hundred and fifteen degrees with the result that the arm 36 with the attached carbon sheet 38 is rotated from the position corresponding in general to that of Fig. 10 where it is parallel to and in contact with a leaf of the book 24, to the position shown in Fig. 11 where it is at theside and wholly clear of all of the leaves of the sales book 24.

It is, of course, obvious that a movement of the rod 34 from the position of Fig. 11

in Fig. 3 which is secured to the In the particular CELUSBS 3, reverse IHO'VGIIlQIlt to that of Fig.

this movement being caused of the arm 36,

by the action of arm 44 traveling outof cam slot 46.

The movement of the rod 34 and attached arts in the manner just describedis caused by the use of a thumb plate 50 on the upper end of a rod 52 which is at its lower end 54 connected to the rod 34 in such a manner that it has a slight pivotal motion with reference to the rod 34 while at the same time longitudinal movement of the member 52 lengthwise of the base 15 causes longitudinal movement of the rod 34 in the manner described. In the particular case here illustrated, the end 54 of the member 52 simply lieswithin a loop 56 formed in the rod 34 so that the rod can rotate-with reference to this member 52. The construction is clearly shown in Fig.6 where it is seen thatinturned portions 58 of the loop 5 6 practically contact each other within a hole 60"formed inside the end 54, thereby making what is practically a ball joint at this point providing for rotary movement in any desired direction. 7

Pivoted to the basemember15 at 64 is a link .65 normally spring pressed upward by a spring device 66, the outer end of the link 65 being pivoted at 68 to the member 52, heretofore described. The parts are so proportioned that when the spring 6(3 has moved all of the parts to the position shown in Fig. 10, they are stopped by a suitable stop anywhere in the mechanism, which in the particular case here illustrated is formed impression is to be made which it is practical to write upon. V

The position of carbon sheet considerably higher within the manifold book than it is possible for the this member 41 places the device of my prior patent to place the carbon sheet. When now the operator presses upon thumb member 50 in a direc tion perpendicular to its face, the force of that pressure is divided into two compo nents, one acting along the rod or lever member 65, the other along the rod 34. As the rod is* free to move longitudinally of the base 15 while the member 65 resists movement along it, the thumb member 50 .moves in the arc of a circle about pivot 64 or from the position of Fig. '10 to that of Fig. 11, with the result that the arm 36 is first moved parallel with the sheets of the manifold book thereby moving it out of probable conflict with the hinged end of the book 24 and at the-time this movement has taken place sufficiently cam slot 46 thereby causingthe rotation of the arm 44 engages the member 36 to the position of Fig. 11, as described. It will be noticed that the lever serves the purpose of so controlling the push member 50 that it does not come in contact with the book 24 in any of its posi tions.

The fact that the device carries the carbon sheet very high in the sales book 24 is very important because all such books have a printed date line printed high 011 the page and the writing 011 this date line should be reproduced on the page below which never takes place in prior devices unless the date line is printed ver low on the page with consequent waste of space and paper.

In the operation of the complete device the salesman first takes hold of the cover 17 and turns it back into contact with the base- 15 where it is entirely out of the way. He new places the manifold book 24 in the clip 22, if it is not already there, so that the parts are in the position shown in Fig. 2. He now presses upon the push plate 50 and moves the member 36 with the carbon 38 attached thereto to the position shown in Fig. 11. The operator now turns the leaves of the book 24 back over the clip 22 until only the bottom permanent sheet, which in books for this device, should as heretofore indicated, be numbered 1 or the lowest number of that particular book, is at the bottom of the book and below the carbon 38. Lever or push plate 50 is now released and under the action of spring 66 all the parts move to the position of Fig. 10 thereby placing the carbon sheet 38 upon said permanent sheet 1. The operator now lays the removable sheet which should also be numbered 1, in the case now under consideration, over the member 36 and the carbon sheet 38 to the position shown in Fig. 1. The salesman now writes his order upon the removable sheet 1 and after removing it from the book lays the second permanent sheet numbered 2 over the carbon sheet 38. In this position permanent sheets 1 and 2 are in proximity to each other with the carbon sheet 38 between them, and well up toward the hinge of the book in which they are bound and the problem is to move the carbon sheet out of this position to one in which it is above permanent sheet 2, ready for use. This is done by simply pressing upon the plate 50 and moving the parts from the position of Fig. 10 to that of Fig. 11 and as heretofore explained, the initial pressure upon the plate 50 moves the arm 44 from its position shown in Figs. 1 and 10 toward the entrance of the cam track 46, during which movement the member 36 moves parallel to its position of Figs. 2 and 10 away from the hinged joint of the book 24 to a position where it is possible for it to begin to move at an angle to its original position toward the position of Fig. 11, and further pressure of the push plate 50 moves the arm 44 in cam track 46 and produces this movement. As the arm 36 carries out this second described movement, carrying the carbon sheet 38 with it, it raises the permanent sheet 2 sufliciently to allow the parts to move to the position of Fig. 11 thereby carrying the carbon sheet 88 out from between permanent sheets 1 and 2 and thus allows the permanent sheet 2 to, by gravity, drop back into contact with sheet 1. As soon as this occurs the salesman releases push plate 50 and the spring 66 returns the parts to the position of Figs. 2 and 10 with the member 36 crossed and the carbon sheet 38 upon the permanent sheet 2. The salesman now moves the second removable sheet 2 over the carbon sheet 38 and in proximity to permanent sheet 1 and writes his second order. The operation isrepeated with each successive pair of sheets or pages in the book 24 until they have all been used when a new book is substituted.

i/Vhen orders are taken for future delivery, as at the kitchen door, the removable order slips are usually left in the book with the permanent sheets, but this does not affect the operation of the device as the mechanism merely causes the carbon holder 86 to jump two sheets of paper instead of one.

The device of the drawings is designed to be held and operated by the left hand of a person who uses his right hand for writing in the order book. It is obvious that a book for the use of a left handed person or one who writes with his left hand may be readily made by reversing the arrangement of the parts and placing the push plate 50 on the right hand side of the base 15 instead of upon the left hand side as shown.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. In a device of the character described, a base adapted to support a sales book, a carbon sheet carrying arm movably mounted on said base, means for moving said arm in a plane parallel with said base, and means for swinging said arm outwardly away from said base at a predetermined point in its longitudinal travel.

2. In a device of the character described, abase adapted to support a sales-book, a longitudinally movable shaft mounted thereon, a carbon sheet carrying arm carried by said shaft, means for moving said shaft longitudinally, and means adapted to re volve said shaft at a predetermined point in its longitudinal travel.

3. In a device of the the combination of a base and a sales or order book secured thereto, a longitudinally movable shaft mounted on said base at one character described,

side of said book, a carbon sheet carrying arm carried by said shaft and normally extended across a page of the book, means for moving said shaft longitudinally, and means for automatically rotating said shaft at a predetermined point in its longitudinal travel for swinging the carbon carrying arm away from said page,

4:. In a device of the character described, the combination of a base adapted to support a sales-book, a longitudinally movable shaftmounted on said base, said shaft being provided with a projection, a cam located to engage said projection at a predetermined point in its longitudinal travel and rotate said shaft, a carbon sheet carrying arm carried by said shaft, means for moving said shaft longitudinally, and means for returning it to normal position.

5. In a device of the character described,

the combination of a base adapted to receive a 'salesbook, a longitudinally movable shaft mounted on said base, a carbon sheet holding arm carried by said shaft, means for rotating said shaft during its longitudinal travel, hand operated means for longitunesses.

dinally moving said shaft, in one direction for longitudinally being pivotally connected at or near its other 1 pivotally connected to said base, and means for returning said rods to normal position, after they havev been operated for longitudinally moving said shaft.

In Witness whereof, I have hereunto sub scribed my name in the presence of two Wit- ALBERT n. TURK,

WVitnesses:

Dwrerrr B. Gnnnvnn, MAX S. Rosnnzwmo.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. Y

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